Amy Senser's stepdaughter: 'She's there because of the crime she committed'

In an interview with ABC, the 28-year-old stepdaughter of Amy Senser said the case against her stepmother has been "heart-breaking." She said it has been difficult for both her family and the family of the man Amy Senser was convicted of hitting and killing on a freeway ramp. Brittani Senser also said she did not "force" her stepmother to take responsibility for the crime.

"I think she is there (jail) because of the crime that she committed," Brittani Senser told ABC.

Amy Senser, the wife of former Minnesota Viking Joe Senser, was sentenced to 41 months in prison for striking and killing Anousone Phanthavong on a dark freeway ramp.

Brittani Senser, an aspiring pop singer who testified against her stepmother, has written a song inspired by the family turmoil. WCCO noted that she released a single called "Straight Jacket" on Tuesday. The defense team in the case had questioned Brittani Senser's motives and suggested she was testifying against her stepmother to advance her career. The interview:

Up until the very end, at least one juror believed Amy Senser's version of what happened the night she struck and killed a man in a hit-and-run crash on a Minneapolis freeway ramp, according to interviews with some of the jurors, the Pioneer Press reports.

Amy Senser will testify in her own defense at her vehicular homicide trial. Her stepdaughter, though, will testify for the prosecution. In opening arguments, a prosecutor said the stepdaughter - worried that she was becoming a suspect - demanded that Amy Senser tell authorities who was driving the SUV that struck and killed a man on an I-94 exit ramp last summer. Amy Senser says she was unaware her vehicle had hit the man.

Amy Senser choked up several times while testifying in her own defense Monday. She told jurors that she thought she hit a construction barrel or pothole. Under cross-examination, Senser denied that she was trying to hide evidence when she deleted dozens of text messages from her phone.

Jurors recessed Tuesday night after more than four hours of deliberating without reaching a verdict in Amy Senser's vehicular homicide case. The jury resumed deliberations Wednesday morning. The twelve men and women are deciding whether the wife of former Viking Joe Senser knew she hit a person on a Minneapolis freeway exist ramp last August. The jurors are being sequestered until they reach a verdict.

Deliberations are underway in her criminal vehicular homicide trial. The defense rested its case Tuesday morning and each side delivered their closing arguments. Twelve men and women will now decide whether Amy Senser knew she hit a person on a Minneapolis freeway exist ramp last August. The jury will be sequestered until a verdict is reached.

Prosecutors claim the wife of former Viking Joe Senser told one of her daughters that she had been drinking before she fatally struck a man along a freeway on-ramp in Minneapolis. She was in court on Monday for her last plea before jury selection in a criminal vehicular homicide case.

Prosecutors called two dozen people to the witness stand this week before handing the case over to Amy Senser's defense team Friday afternoon. KSTP reports Senser is expected to take the stand Monday and the jury could begin deliberations by Tuesday. Before adjourning for the weekend, the judge warned jurors he plans to sequester them once deliberations begin.